Dov Winer Israel MINERVA Coordinator Director - e Jewish. info Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel Some examples of Israel and Jewish Digitisation Projects Section 11. Policies of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Digitization and Preservation

Jerusalem Archaeological Park back back

Jerusalem Archaeological Park back back Early Islamic

Jerusalem Archaeological Park back back Crusader Period

National Photo Collection

Wide digitization project and several online exhibitions Digitized 2,000,000 pages of testimony in 20 languages 100,000 photographs Deep Terminological Development Yad Vashem – Holocaust Memorial Authority

Jewish National and University Library

The David and Fella Shapell Foundation National Sound Archives – 1,700 hours already available Holy Land Maps –Jerusalem maps digitized and accessible Albert Einstein Archives Communal Registers of Jewish Communities Early Hebrew Press – First six large format newspapers Jewish National and University Library

Collaborative projects  Ketubbot Marriage contracts from 8 collections  Talmudic Manuscripts  full manuscript of the Mishna  several tractates of the Babylonian Talmud Jewish National and University Library

Deep Jewish Content Jewish Databases and Digital Repositories Texts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Pictures, Video, Music, Multimedia, Films

Responsa: The pioneer digitisation Project

Central Zionist Archives

Central Zionist Archives digitization – 4 million documents – 250,000 photographs – 8,000 Keren Kayemet maps – 3,000 posters The Jewish Agency for Israel – eJewish.info Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking Infrastructures – Department of Education units for ICT in Education and Contact Center (Distance Education) – P2P initiatives for Jewish Museums and Theater National Institutions: Jewish Agency, WZO, Keren Kayemte

Ben Gurion Archives

Diaspora Museum Collections

Israel Labor Party Archives

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Harvard College Library  JUDAICA Library  Area Studies Department  Initiative for Harvesting and Archiving Israeli Websites for Research

Years of Jewish Internet Networking achievements and problems  Extraordinary expansion of connectivity for individuals, families and institutions  Most of the activity is inter-personal: mail exchanges, chats, forums and distribution lists  About 8-9,000 Jewish Web sites The sites are focused on specific subject matters: a given locality, an institution or denomination, an interest group – age, observance, gender, politics back back

Alexa ’ s Ranking of Web Sites RankLinks Wallahttp://walla.co.il Haaretz English 1,6272,735 Jerusalem Posthttp://jpost.com1,1895,052 Haaretz (Hebrew) JDate Israel's Business Arena KOL-ISRAEL.COM Radio Israel Insiderhttp://web.israelinsider.com17, Snunithttp://snunit.k12.il18, Kol Israel Reshet Bet

JewishGenhttp://jewishgen.org20,9361,650 Yentahttp://yenta. .net21,06246 ADLhttp://adl.org/adl.asp24,6102,468 Jewish Virtual Library Orthodox Unionhttp://ou.org32,5931,244 Shamashhttp://shamash.org37,1092,670 Jewish Streethttp://jewishstreet.com41, Project Genesishttp://torah.org45,3931,051 Jewish Community Online (AOL) US Holocaust Memorial Museum 3,254

UAHC (Reform) Simon Wiesenthalhttp://wiesenthal.com51,4021,774 United Synagoguehttp://uscj.org55,6591,002 Department of Education, JAFI MAVENhttp://maven.co.il62,1631,324 Amalnethttp:// back

Thank you for your attention ! Contact: Dov Winer, Director Program for the Development of Jewish Networking Infrastructures an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel P.O.Box 92 Jerusalem Israel phone: fax: